# Snowdrift Pumpkin

This is a book/manifesto/canon/ukase/whatever explaining the structure,
motivation, ideology, and economics of
[Snowdrift](https://snowdrift.coop). We couldn't decide what to call it,
so for now it's called "The Snowdrift Pumpkin", per the suggestion of
Snowdrift's lead developer, Bryan Richter.

It's licensed under the
[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, version 4.0][cc-by-sa-human]. You
can read a [non-legalese version][cc-by-sa-human] or read the legalese
in the [`LICENSE`](LICENSE) file in this repository.

## Reading the pumpkin

The book doesn't have much (or any) content yet, so you have to compile
it by hand if you want to read it. To do so, you need a UNIX-like
system, and to install [Git][git-install] as well as TeX Live. See the
[Installing TeXLive][installing-texlive] section for OS-specific
instructions regarding TeX Live.

Once you have all that, compiling is easy:

    git clone https://notabug.org/pharpend/pumpkin.git
    cd pumpkin
    make
    
The book will show up as `pumpkin-en.pdf`.

Sometimes, you'll get cryptic errors. If that happens, run `make clean`,
and try again. If that doesn't work, you can try to fix the error
yourself, or you can contact the maintainer at `peter@harpending.org`.

### Installing TeXLive

This varies by OS. If your OS isn't listed, guess based on the
instructions for similar OSes. If your OS isn't listed, and you
know/figure out how to set up TeXLive, then please to add instructions
to this document, and send a merge request. If you don't know how, or
don't want to do that, you could also email `peter@harpending.org` with
the instructions.

#### Linux

##### Arch

If you want the kitchen sink, run this.

    pacman -S texlive-most

For this book, specifically, this should be just fine:

    pacman -S texlive-latexextra
    
Although I haven't tested it. You can see the
[Arch Wiki page on TeXLive][aw-latex] if you want more information.

[aw-latex]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Latex
[cc-by-sa-human]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
[cc-by-sa-legal]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.txt
[git-installing]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git
[installing-texlive]: #installing-texlive
[snowdrift]: https://snowdrift.coop/
